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Researcher · Westinghouse Electric (United States) · United States

M. M. Postan

M. M. Postan publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, History and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Historical Economic and Social Studies, Medieval Literature and History and Historical Economic and Legal Thought.

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World rank
#72,298
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#27,906
of 1,627,098
Works
186
Citations
3.8k
Citations per work
20.6
h-index
32
i10-index 72Top 3.9% in Economics and Econometrics
M. M. Postan

What does M. M. Postan research?

M. M. Postan's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (31%), Arts and Humanities (26%), Social Sciences (24%).

Social Sciences: 150 works · 80.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 58 works · 31.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 51 works · 27.2% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 works · 4.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 48 works · 25.8% of their workHistory: 32 works · 17.1% of their workClassics: 16 works · 8.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 44 works · 23.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 31 works · 16.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 19.2% of their workTHEIR WORKM. M. Postan186works
Social Sciences81%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5831.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities4825.8%
    3. Social Sciences4423.7%
  2. Everything else3619.2%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics27% of their works
  2. 2History17% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  4. 4Classics9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  6. 6General Economics, Econometrics and Finance4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. M. Postan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Trade, Economic Growth, Inequality, Height, Wages, Medieval, Religion and History.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Trade772 topics
  2. Economic Growth752 topics
  3. Inequality752 topics
  4. Height671 topic
  5. Wages671 topic
  6. Medieval342 topics
  7. Religion342 topics
  8. History322 topics
  9. Literature322 topics
  10. Economic Ethics241 topic
  11. Legal History241 topic
  12. Manuscripts241 topic
  13. Society241 topic
  14. Scandinavia101 topic
  15. Viking Age101 topic
  16. Calvinism81 topic
  17. Cross-Cultural Encounters81 topic
  18. Financial Crisis81 topic
  19. Income Distribution81 topic
  20. Mediterranean81 topic
  21. National Identity81 topic
  22. Reformation81 topic
  23. Scotland81 topic

Where does M. M. Postan work?

M. M. Postan's main affiliation in the publication record is Westinghouse Electric (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does M. M. Postan have?

OpenAlex counts 186 works and 3,834 citations for M. M. Postan, an h-index of 32, ranking #72,298 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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